this was the companion album to the first of five movies the band would be a part of in their lifespanit is also the best of their five movies (as evidenced by the classic scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMjYiCknUYg )the first half of the album is songs from the movie and the second half is songs not from the movie

so what's there to say about the title tracki like how john and paul both share the song

i should have known better is for the most part forgettable but it uses the cheap tactic of forcing memorability with its "oh woahwoahwoah iiiiiiiiiiiiii"

if i fell is a pretty good ballad but it's outshined hard by and i love her later on (john is simply worse at straightforward ballads than paul)

i'm happy just to dance with you has a neat guitar tone to it but that's about it

and i love her is 10/10 perfect nothing else can be said for it

tell me why is a REALLY nice song; it could have been a different band's most popular song any day of the weekshame it had to be stuck here where it will never get its dueand a definite shame about the next track overshadowing it in every way

can't buy me love ends both the songs that were in the movie and the string of 10/10 tracksa definite candidate for the band's best pre-1967 song

opening the non-movie tracks with any time at all was a great move honestlywhile not up to the standard of the last three tracks, any time at all is still a really nice tracki like john's vocals a lot on the chorus

i'll cry instead is the worst song on the albumit's just filler, plain and simpleyou can tell that john just didn't care about it at all in the way he sings it

things we said today is one of those songs that has no immediate impact but the more you listen to the album the more you appreciate iti really like the atmosphere of the song and paul's vocal part

when i get home is also fillerthere is absolutely nothing remarkable or even approaching "okay" about this songi may have been too harsh on i'll cry instead; it's better than this shit

you can't do that is barely any better

i'll be back is better than the last two tracks so i probably overrated it but well

honestly, this album had more filler than i'd rememberedit's got more than enough classics to earn its place on the shelf but it's really front-loaded

the best anthrax albumi know that's not exactly high praisebut i actually enjoyed this a lot more than i'd expected to(my expectations were rock bottom)

there's a cover of cheap trick's auf wiedersehen here as a bonus track but it's nowhere near the originalcheap trick's is far more intensei mean it's not a bad cover i guess but the original is just so much better it's not even funny(this version gets better at the end but it's still so similar yet inferior that i wouldn't even bother)

then there's a cover of thin lizzy's cowboy songhere's the thing about covering thin lizzy:phil lynott's voice is perfecthe could have sang about unicorns and rainbows and still have sounded like the manliest motherfucker ever to liveagain, the performance anthrax guy gives isn't bad by any meansbut he's covering a song sung by someone who was perfect at making the song feel RIGHTthin lizzy's original cowboy song is just untouchable

09 Feb 2018: Robert Palmer/"Some People Can do What They Like" (1976)http://musiccouldbebetter.blogspot.com/2018/02/not-me-though.html

keep in touch would be a great song if the title lyric were removed completely

the third track is godawful in not just lyrical content but also as a piece of musiche could be saying "fuck yeah tits and chocolate milk" with that voice in the chorus and i'd still hate itokay i just had the best idea everyou know how boobs are full of milk?????WHAT IF we genetically ENGINEERED it so that boobs would instead be full of CHOCOLATE milkjust give me the nobel prize now thanks

the first track proves that no one is better at singing "so far away" than ZP theartbowie's constant "so far away" is so fucking annoying

dead man walking is most likely bowie's best song from the '90si also like the distorted guitar in the last thing you should do

the album starts out BAD but then it gets good soif it were a four-song EP consisting of dead man walking, the last thing you should do, law, and seven years in tibet, it would be a great thingshame about the rest of it